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...papa's an alum...
Navarrette's publishers have attempted to emphasize his taste for controversy, portraying his book as a piece of Harvard-bashing literature by a sour alum. In A Darker Shade of Crimson, Navarrette criticizes Harvard for forcing him into "playing the role" of a token minority student. He also claims that the University could do more for its minority students by including adding a Chicano studies major and recognizing that Mexican-American students feel alienated in a unique...
Newsweek views this as a horrible tragedy; the article speaks of "the waste of their $100,000 educations and the frittering away on once promising intellectual gifts." Here's how it describes one Harvard alum's abandonment of his graduate studies in mathematics at Berkeley to write for Beavis and Butt-head: "You could read the entire story of American decline in that one career move...
...There is a much greater diversity in the student body, said Gondelman. "A fellow alum said today's students appear to be much brighter than his class...
Water from Fresh Pond is drawn into the Fresh Pond Water Treatment Plant. Once inside the Plant, water is mixed with alum, a coagulant, which combines with organic matter and settles to the bottom in sedimentation basins...